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Show OJEDA GUTS HIS WAY THROUGHTHE ENEMY Mexican Commander Returns lo Border Town of Naco; Obregon Not lo Attack. NACO, Ariz., March 2.O. General Pedro Ojeda and his 400 federal soldiers, sol-diers, who were surouuded and attacked at-tacked by 1000 state troops below the border yesterday, arrived at Naco, Sonora. today, having cut their way through the constitutionalist lines and 1 escaped. Ojeda left several days ago, with the avowed intention of relieving the federal garrison at Canancn. The I surrender of Cananea frustrated this plan and left Ojeda to make his way back to his headquarters as best he might. Jn vesterday's fighting below the border the federals lost fivo killed and thrco wounded, while the state forces lost three killed and twelve wounded. The wounded wcro taken to Douglas. General Alfaro Obrogon of the insurgents in-surgents has ordered that no attack be mado on Naco until it may bo done with the least danger to Ajneprcan citizens cit-izens and soldiers on the Arizona side A strong patrol of tho Fifth and Ninth United States cavalry is drawn np here. EL PASO. Tex.. March 20. The American Amer-ican mining settlements about Parral, Chihuahua, today arc cut off entirely from railway or telepraphlc communication communica-tion with the United States or the Interior In-terior of Mexico. Chihuahua constitutionalists constitu-tionalists cut the American Central railway rail-way below Chihuahua City. The road previously had been cut below Torreon. Eli PASO, Tex., March 29. The constitutionalist con-stitutionalist movement against tho Iluer-ta Iluer-ta national government will be launched formally at a conference of the Mexican Insurgents at HcrmosIUo, Sonora, on April 15. It Is planned to hold a congress of rebel agents from Chihuahua, Coahulla, Slnaloa, Teplc and Sonora, as well as from other slates where the movement is not so firmly established. Among the matters to be taken up at tho projected convention will be the discussion dis-cussion of actual secession or tho establishing estab-lishing of a provisional government merely mere-ly until the movement should gain general gen-eral force. Rafael Hernandez, a former Madero cabinet member, is mentioned most persistently as a provisional presidential presi-dential possibility Senor Hernandez is a refugee in New York city. A secret agent was here today meeting representatives of the movement in Sonora, So-nora, where the state la practically controlled con-trolled by Insurgent state troops. He came from Coahulla, representing Governor Gov-ernor Carranza. whose troops are now engaged in combatting the Huerta military mili-tary in the eastern border state. Negotiations Ne-gotiations also havo been taken np with the constitutionalists, who continue to liaraws tho federals In southern Chihuahua, Chihua-hua, keeping closed all traffic to the interior in-terior of the republic. NOGAL.ES, Ariz,, March 29. No United States malt wa3 rifled by Btato authorities In Sonora, according to an investigation made by Postmaster C. I Fowler. The local consular agent for the Huarta government gov-ernment alone was responsible for tho. report. AH outgoing United States mall has been held hero by ordors from Washington. Wash-ington. A fow letters of Incoming Mexican Mexi-can mall had been opened and wera ro-fused ro-fused by the postmaster. I |